Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25, Beijing confirmed on Monday, in the latest high-level effort to manage tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
“At the invitation of President of the United States of America Donald J Trump, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25,” the Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement without elaborating.The visit will be Xi’s first state visit to the US since September 2015, when he travelled to Washington at the invitation of then-president Barack Obama. Xi later met Trump during his first term in 2017 and visited the US in 2023 for talks with then-president Joe Biden on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
Xi has visited the United States five times since becoming China’s president in 2013. The upcoming trip follows Trump’s state visit to China in May, with Beijing describing the exchange of visits by the two leaders within six months as having “historic significance”.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Xi and Trump would hold an “in-depth exchange of views” on major issues concerning bilateral ties, as well as peace and development.
“Head of state diplomacy plays an irreplaceable role in providing strategic guidance to China-US relations,” Guo said, adding that Beijing would work with Washington to strengthen dialogue and cooperation, manage differences and contribute to global peace, stability and prosperity.
